The local Kurds and Arabs and Turkmen in the city should be incorporated into the Kurdish autonomous region on the issue of long-standing dispute, Kirkuk is therefore often violent attacks.

• 当地的库尔德人与阿拉伯人和土库曼人在该市是否应该并入库尔德自治区问题上长期存在争端，基尔库克因此时常发生暴力袭击事件。